Tax Cheatingtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5160802006-09-29T10:45:18-04:00Tracking trends and articles about tax protest schemes, corporate cheating, and individual tax evasionTypePadTexas couple convicted at break neck speedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-130978692006-09-29T10:45:18-04:002006-09-29T10:45:18-04:0039 witnesses in less than three days? Zow. Source: North Texas e-News reprint of DOJ press release Flower Mound couple convicted of tax evasion Sep 25, 2006 Excerpts: Sherman, TX -- United States Attorney Matthew D. Orwig announced today that...JJ MacNabNuclear Engineer pleads guilty to tax crimestag:typepad.com,2003:post-130971182006-09-29T10:00:48-04:002006-09-29T10:00:48-04:00Source: Post Gazette Nuclear engineer guilty of conspiracy, tax evasion Tuesday, September 26, 2006 By Paula Reed Ward Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A nuclear engineer who formerly worked for Westinghouse Electric Corp. pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiracy and tax...JJ MacNabDiamond broker / tax protester indictedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-130212162006-09-25T23:39:56-04:002006-09-25T23:39:56-04:00First, illegal fundraising, then refusing to pay any income taxes on millions of income. What a gem... Source: Pensacola News Journal Diamond broker in IRS flap 'Sport' Suttles accused of failing to pay $2.5 million since 1990 By Michael Stewart...JJ MacNabMetabolife owner sentenced to only 6 monthstag:typepad.com,2003:post-129827112006-09-23T12:41:18-04:002006-09-23T12:41:18-04:00Even though his tax cheating was in the millions of dollars? Source: North County Times Saturday, September 23, 2006 Metabolife owner sentenced for tax evasion Excertps: SAN DIEGO ---- A North County man who owns part of weight loss-oriented Metabolife...JJ MacNabTexas doctor tries to use a bogus trust to evade taxestag:typepad.com,2003:post-129725472006-09-22T18:31:19-04:002006-09-22T18:31:19-04:00Source: Amarillo Globe News Friday, September 22, 2006 Excerpts: Physician sentenced for tax evasion An Amarillo physician has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release for tax evasion. Evidence at the trial showed Miller...JJ MacNabBus Exec whose tax protester boss is on the lam found guiltytag:typepad.com,2003:post-129723732006-09-22T18:13:47-04:002006-09-22T18:13:47-04:00Most tax protesters are barely scraping by. But not this time... Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune Ex-executive found guilty of aiding tax evasion And the Comtrol CEO, still a fugitive, was supposed to have stood trial with his former coworker September...JJ MacNabConnecticut plastic surgeon evades taxes with less than surgical precisiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-129723222006-09-22T18:09:56-04:002006-09-22T18:09:56-04:00What can I say? Doctors and tax evasion... Source: Westport News Westport Doctor Charged With Tax Evasion, Fraud Westport resident Steven Herman, a plastic surgeon with offices in Norwalk and Manhattan, pleaded guilty Monday, before U.S. District Judge Janet C....JJ MacNabIdaho tax protesters sentencedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-129490092006-09-21T14:41:36-04:002006-09-21T14:41:36-04:00Trying to claim that you aren't a US citizen and therefore the IRS and DOJ have no authortity over you isn't going to work... Source: KUTV.com Tuesday September 19, 2006 BOISE, Idaho (AP) An Idaho landscape artist whose work is...JJ MacNabRhode Island tax protest promoter shut downtag:typepad.com,2003:post-129486972006-09-21T14:21:52-04:002006-09-21T14:21:52-04:00News Alert: Setting up a phony church doesn't make you income tax free... Source: ABC6 News Providence man agrees to stop alleged tax fraud scheme September 20, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) - A Providence man has agreed to stop marketing an...JJ MacNabFive CA preparers invdicted for thousands of false returnstag:typepad.com,2003:post-129480932006-09-21T13:48:14-04:002006-09-21T13:48:14-04:00If these people took in more than $1.5 million in fees in recent years, why is my tax money paying for public defenders? Source: The Press-Enterprise Excerpts: A family-run tax business in Rialto cost the federal government more than $14.4...JJ MacNabIs tax cheating viral?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-129208992006-09-20T12:27:37-04:002006-09-20T12:27:37-04:00According to a DOJ press release released on 9/19/06, a Danville abusive trust promoter named Robert Douglas Hazen pleaded guilty to aiding in assisting the preparation of a tax return. His co-defendant, a financial advisor named Earl Combs, had already...JJ MacNabPure trust promoter gets 63 months in prisontag:typepad.com,2003:post-129100292006-09-19T20:29:36-04:002006-09-19T20:29:36-04:00Source: DOJ Press Release Excerpts: United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Roger L. Wirth, Special Agent-in-Charge of the IRS Oakland Field Office, announced today that CALVIN AVILA, 69, from Sacramento, was sentenced by United States District Judge William B....JJ MacNabCalifornia tax preparer pleads guilty to preparing 480 false returnstag:typepad.com,2003:post-129098802006-09-19T20:15:09-04:002006-09-19T20:15:09-04:00Source: DOJ Press Release Defendant STEVE TACANG entered a guilty plea this morning before United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr., to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. According to Assistant United...JJ MacNabIrwin Schiff follower convictedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-129097912006-09-19T20:05:50-04:002006-09-19T20:05:50-04:00Yikes, that means at least 24 Irwin Schiff clients have been convicted of tax crimes, and yet his loyal cult followers still think his "methods" work. Source: Detroit News Excerpts: Kenneth Heath, 69, faces up to five years in prison...JJ MacNabFlorida couple filters income through phony truststag:typepad.com,2003:post-129097342006-09-19T19:59:14-04:002006-09-19T19:59:14-04:00And pay themselves just enough income to fall under the standard exemption amount. Hmmmm. Excerpts from United States v. Bahrs, N.D. Fla., No. 1:05-CV-138-SPM, 8/29/06: This is a suit brought by the United States to collect unpaid income taxes for...JJ MacNab